I Go, We Win

Posted in Uncategorized by Flavor on June 24, 2018

Well, if my first game of the year had to be a non-Bum start I am perfectly fine with it being a Baby Pudge start. I am still obsessing on why the Twins just gave up on this guy. It’s not like they (or any team) is so stocked with young pitching they can just cast off a dude with such limited experience, obvious potential and hall of fame lineage. So I will inspect him closely in between my knowing dude head nods this afternoon.

The Giants usually rake when I attend so this one is in the bag….

(Mac bomb also in the bag in El Paso at Raley Field today)

And……I’m calling a foul ball for me. Why not? Some day that has to happen and we’ve got the seats for plenty of opportunities. So my advice to anyone sitting near me: Practice your duck and cover routine now. There will be an unannounced stop by the Big Flavor train in your row at some point today….

Oh Bochy says Pence in LF today no Slater. Also appears Hanson will get more run out there vs. RHP.
Last time I looked he was around .300 batting LH, .200 RH.

Nice to see Giants SPs steadily lowering ERA, at least at home.
smrdz supposed to throw 90 pitches in next start for Sac on Tuesday.
Cueto gave up only 1 IF hit no walks 4 Ks 48 pitches in 3 and a third. Supposed to make couple more starts.

At the game on wed I came as close as I ever have to getting a foul ball. Two within 15 to my left that ricocheted off of a wheel chair bound fan. One three seats to my right that bounced off of an old timers hip. Just didn’t feel right about getting into the scrums for those balls. Good luck, Flavor.

Speaking of wheel chair fans,I had a beat right on a Barry Bonds GW HR in the bleachers years ago, I had it all lined up and a dude in the wheelchair bumped into me! I was sort of pissed off, but then other stupid moron fans knocked the guy right out of his wheelchair and I was the only one to offer him help back in it,sad world we live in when shit like that happens over a ball.,

Samardzija or Pudgelet?
If you can only have one tatted up longhair in the rotation

After Bumgarner/Cueto, how the starters rank:
3- Stratton
4- Suarez
5- Holland
6-Rodriguez
(Only a suggestion, as one could easily make a case for any combination of pitchers listed above)
7- Samardzija
8- Blach
9- Beede

If you’re a struggling journeyman hitter trying to get a job in the majors, and get some major league money, how tempting would it be to juice up?
Especially with teams so on the look for power in this juice ball/SABR-heavy era.

or a kid growing up in less than ideal circumstances from a third world country where drug laws are quite different.

Btw,saw a book out today by writer who will be in Bay Area named Ace Smith. It’s about Satchel Paige (and couple others from Negro Leagues) being recruited to play in the DR by Trujillo 1937. “the Pitcher and the Dictator.”

another dribbler, what a surprise.
what bochy said in Chron re: Pence/Jackson was that everyone gave up on Gorks last year (guilty as charged) and now he’s productive player “You never forget the history of the players and the heart they have.”

With 5 outfielders, infield depth is thin. I know, I’m sounding like a broken record. 🙂
The younger generations don’t know that expression “sounding like a broken record.” A figure of speech that will eventually disappear.

Not sure Blach was a guy you want to bring in to get one out in that situation. Lefty lefty, OK, whatever. And Moronta could throw another one in the dirt. But, Blach is a guy I’d want to bring in to start an inning. Moronta is way more likely to get a strike out, or the hitter won’t square one up hard, which Spangenberg did to drive in the run…

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This is the comment by MLB to its Pence walk off video.
I am not making this up:
“Hunter Pence lifts the Giants to a 3-2 win in 11 innings as he rips a double down the line in right to bring home two runs”…

These days Pence swings at those low breaking balls like an old woman swatting a broom at rats on the floor, but that’s one angry old woman who sometimes connects. Exit velocity on that rolling rodent was about 50 mph, but he fucking managed to hit it past a 1B playing off the line. Despite the frustrating moments, that was a fun game.

“Pence swings at those low breaking balls like an old woman swatting a broom at rats on the floor…” That is fucking hilarious, xoot. Agree, damned entertaining game!

Too bad Rodriguez doesn’t get the W, because he sure as hell deserved it. Kid pitched his ass off today.

Interesting talk on KNBR pre-game about what will happen when Smardj and Cueto return. Was discussion of Rodriguez or Suarez going into the pen, and some of the dead wood, like Gearrin getting jettisoned…

I suggested that, too – I think he had one real good year out of the pen.
Why the fuck is he entitled to reclaim his spot in the rotation?
Timmy and his big salary went to the fuckin’ pen – and this big dope couldn’t roll Timmy’s joint…

That was Hand’s 4th blown save btw, altho tough way to lose a ballgame.
Props to Pads for not (so far anyway) trading him away. Keeping an elite closer on team that’s now 10 games under .500 might not happen to other teams.

Very happy for Flavor and Pence.
Very sad about the death of Vinnie Paul, a founding member of my favorite metal band, Pantera.
I guess you know what happened to his brother, Dimebag Darrell some years ago…

This was a big win if the Giants have any postseason dreams. A loss today would’ve put them 7 back of AZ in the LC with LA in between. With the WC probably not an option, they can’t afford to fall back much further…

I would hope Giants do something like what LA did last season and put SPs on 10 day DL occasionally like say Holland or Strat. that way they hopefully stay fresher and the 2 kids DRod and Suarez go back down and continue to work every 5th day then come back up for couple starts as needed. If you put these guys in already crowded pen I don’t think they get much work—dyson melancon watson FLR Blach Moronta yada yada.

Smrdz imo ain’t going anywhere near the pen unless he totally craters when he comes back. He said he feels great right now so he can play the I wasn’t ever healthy card. Cueto apparently is couple more rehab starts away.

I’d be totally down with that. This Rodriguez kid looks like a keeper, he is MLB competitive right now. Suarez needs a bit more seasoning below, but he’s basically close to MLB ready. Beede is in the twilight zone with his needy wifey, he’s outta the picture…

That is a great pic, and it looks like someone is giving Pence a little nipple rub action. Lexi might get jealous. As for the Giants in the standings, they’re closer to the wildcard than the division lead, and even though there are 5 teams ahead of them for the WC, they might have a better chance of gaining on 4 of those teams than they do of passing both LA and AZ. Time will tell….

No foul ball came my way so section 218 and its unsuspecting patrons were spared my wrath. There was a guy with a glove sitting in front of me. He was definitely going to be a problem. But in the end, it didn’t matter. We were sitting directly in front of Sabean and Evans box. They were watching the game with the shades up. After Pence struck out in the 6th or whenever I walked up the stairs and when I was right underneath Sabean’s box I yelled “Pence Sucks!!!!” and kept walking. When I returned, Sabean’s shade was down (although Evans’ was still up).
I haven’t seen any replays yet but I still don’t know how Belt didn’t catch that ball in the 11th. And Pence’s hit was just old glory at work there. He willed that damn ball down the line. Weakly hit but got the job done. He was celebrating like a madman running up the first base line and you all saw what happened after he got to the middle of the diamond.
All in all, a fantastic day at the yard…..

ask and you shall receive. We now have thumbs up/down on comments. As I said above, years ago when I started the blog I had that feature but Twin emailed me asking me to take it down because he said it would encourage Flappers bullying of him.
It is past time to bring it back….

During the discussion on KNBR about the potential of Rodriguez or Suarez going to the pen, the thought was that since the starters are not going deep, there will be the innings available in the pen to keep these guys stretched-out. Will be interesting to see how it all shakes out.

San Dawg would have already been to the park with the bat. Be careful. Oh what am I saying, if you snap it you’ll repair it good as new in a new york minute….
What do you guys out there think of that saying, btw? We use it out here a lot and I’m not sure why.

Funny how many of us have bats laying around. I think I told the story of finding this bat (and a small gym bag with a mitt and a pro-style cap) at a game in 1978. A buddy and I had stuck around way after the game had ended and were just walking around down by 1st base side. Lost the mitt pretty quickly, lost the hat a dew years later, the bag fell apart in the 90s, but I still have the bat. It has a nice crack down by the handle that i taped with electrical tape.

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Timmy is 34 now. And I want to say “only 34”. And he’s been pretty much done for awhile. I can’t really even imagine how that would feel, to be *done* before the age of 35. Because, you know, my career has just been one long upward trajectory with no end in sight…